The Struggle for Hegemony in the Late Ming Dynasty and the Legend of Chen Yuanyuan

At the end of the Apocalypse, Chen Yuanyuan was involved in the power chess game of the late Ming Dynasty with a song "The Peony Pavilion" in the Suzhou Liyuan. She was originally a troupe singer, but was forced into the palace by Wei Zhongxian's remnant party in the name of "draft", and became a pawn in the game between the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party - a broken silver bracelet on her wrist concealed secret maps of Jianghu, and a sachet on her sleeve concealed Miao poisonous poison. The seemingly weak "flowing clouds and water sleeves" were actually her life-saving skills to convey secret messages and avert murderous intentions. After entering the palace, she escaped the palace's poisonous plot by observing words and expressions, and expressed her loyalty to Chongzhen by using Empress Zhou's "lotus pattern". However, due to Chongzhen's suspicion, she was eventually given to Wu Sangui, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong. At that time, the world was in chaos: Li Zicheng's rebel army broke through Luoyang and forced Beijing. Huang Taiji's Qing army was eyeing Shanhaiguan, and people inside and outside the court were panicked. Chen Yuanyuan circled around Wu Sangui's military camp, delaying Liu Zongmin's persecution with "Ecstasy", and at the same time passed on the secret report of the Dashun Army's deployment to the Qing army. After the Qing army entered the pass, she followed Wu Sangui to guard Yunnan and lived in Pingxi Prince's Mansion. She sent her son Wu Yingxiong to Beijing as a hostage, used the "mother-child love" to contain Wu Sangui, and used Chongzhen's secret edict to win over Jianghu forces, trying to leave a glimmer of hope for the Han people in the San Francisco Rebellion. From the Suzhou Liyuan to the Forbidden Palace, from Shanhaiguan to the Yunnan Palace, Chen Yuanyuan traveled as a weak woman. Finally, in the flames of the San Francisco Rebellion, she watched Wu Sangui defeated and killed, and Wu Yingxiong was sentenced to death. She took half the remaining imperial edict and hid in the mountains, leaving only a legend about intrigue and helplessness.